The Sign Beyond All Signs

INTER-RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE SERIES This series attempts to facilitate an effective and fruitful dialogue between religions. Most of the material at the source level is intended for anyone who is interested in purposeful dialogue across religions. The essays and articles have been prepared by various scholars in their respective fields. TITLES IN THE SERIES Prayer and Conlemplalion Ed: Cletus M. Vadakkekara This book comprises 18 scholarly papers, each one unfolding a specific realm of spirituality, and affords' the richness of the Christian Patristic as well as various Hindu traditions. ISBN 81-7495-026-5 Book 1 Divine Grace and Human Response Ed: Cietus M. Vadakkekara The studies in this volume cover a wide range of teachings on Divine Grace from the Bible and the Fathers, and the main schools of Hindu thought, revealing an extraordinary degree of parallel doctrine in Christian and Hindu traditions. ISBN 81-7495-027-3 Book 2 Book 3 The Sign Beyond All Signs Christian Monastlcism in Dialogue with India Ed: Canon Francis V. Tiso This book on monastic themes continues the kind of creative conversation as the previous volumes do, and is offered as a paradigm of the struggle to arrive at deeper inter-religious understanding. ISBN 81-7495-019-2 Purusa: Treading the Razor's Edge Toward Selfhood The Self and Self-Experience in Islamic and Hindu Mysticism Thomas Mooren The author sojourns the realms of Indian Upanishads and Islamic Sufism in pursuit of the Self and Self-Experience—"the essential feature of the basic mystical attitude in Hinduism and Islam"—on the border between God and humankind. This definitely provides a platform for Inter-religious dialogue. ISBN 81-7495-019-2